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1/2 OF THE WORLD lives on LESS THAN 2 DOLLARS each day.
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Do all you can and don't worry about the odds against you. Wield the miracle of life's energy, never worrying whether we fail, concerned only that whether we fail or succeed we do so with all our might. That's all we need to know to feel certain that all our force of diligent effort is worth our while on Earth.
Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle

Monday, May 16, 2011

O behaviors and other stuff

Calling for sunny weather all week...can't help but love that.

Mim has two track meets this week and then track will be finished and she will have a break from sports for a while. She is learning to balance sports, academics and friends. Lately a few of her grades have slipped because her friendship quota has gone up and so has her social behavior thereby negatively affecting her grades....so we are now talking about the fact that it is great to have a social circle, BUT she needs to learn to balance it with her other responsibilities....so much much to learn.

This past weekend was a little rough with Ve. We have good weekends and then rough ones. For some reason we we struggling alot with listening to me etc., again...I will breathe easier when I know that Ve will make the correct choices based on the values I have taught her even if I am NOT present. She is so easily influenced by others...so easily, to the point where she will do something wrong if a friend or sister tells her to do something, even tho she knows she should not. I guess maturity will help, but I am ever aware that I missed out on nearly 5 years of teaching values of right and wrong..So the O behaviors reared their ugly heads once again.

Posted by Aves @ Call of the Phoebe at 7:15 AM

1 comment:

Not Betty Crocker said...

Everytime you write about the girls, it sounds like my kids. Gracie is Mim-same troubles with social butterfly and dropping grades and Samuel is Ve. Oh, is that child easily influenced and impulsive. Try, try again.

You're a good Mama!
Lila

May 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM

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